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“I am not your justification for existence.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“Orquídea didn’t like it because she knew she wasn’t a flower, delicate and pretty and waiting to be plucked. For what? To be smelled? To sit in a glass of water until she withered? She was more than that. She wanted to be rooted so deep into the earth that nothing, no human, no force of nature, save an act of the heavens themselves, could rip her out.”
― Zoraida Córdova, The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina

“He watches her the way Harshaw watches fire. Like he’ll never have enough of her. Like he’s trying to capture what he can before she’s gone.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“It’s almost like I was looking for the pain and the hurt, because it was easier to live with the idea that, even though I want love, I’m not the kind of person who deserves to be loved.”
― Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After

“The moment our hearts shattered? It belongs to us.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“Those like us were not meant to be kind. We were born to rage and burn and destroy all that must be destroyed, so that maybe, one day, much better people than us can live in a world where they’re rewarded for their kindness instead of having it twisted to bind them.”
― Xiran Jay Zhao, Heavenly Tyrant

“Trying to forget is my full-time job now.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“A stain in her mother’s perfect life. The bastard child left behind by a man who’d used her. Seeing her mother was like pressing on a bruise that had never healed. It had festered, rotted. It seeped down to the bone. She’d only learned to live with the pain.”
― Zoraida Córdova, The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina

“They will not use my tears for their entertainment.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“She is a moon, tethered forever to a planet that she does not want anything to do with but can’t exist without.”
― Joelle Wellington, Their Vicious Games

“A cannon fires. Somewhere, Beetee’s heart breaks into fragments so small it can never be repaired.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“Because there was nothing in a girl’s history that might negate her right to choose what happens to her body.”
― Katrina Leno, Summer of Salt

“But I'm not looking to be fixed. I want to be loved and liked and desired not because of my size, not despite my size, but because I'm ME”
― Olivia Dade, Spoiler Alert

“I used to think I shouldn't be here, but now I know I can't. And maybe I don't have to be. This world wants my suffering, and I cannot keep giving it to them.”
― Tracy Deonn, Bloodmarked

“With that, she condemns me to life.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“They would remember only that Miel and Sam had been called Honey and Moon, a girl and a boy woven into the folklore of this place.”
― Anna-Marie McLemore, When the Moon Was Ours

“So stand together! Your enemy is not the Rongdi willing to accept lower pay out of greater desperation. It is not the colleague campaigning for higher pay for a job you consider less worthy than yours. There is no sense in fighting each other for scraps while the true hoarders of wealth laugh at your in-fighting from their gilded storehouses!”
― Xiran Jay Zhao, Heavenly Tyrant

“I think he’s missed a lot of trouble down here on earth, because he’s always studying the sky.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“It had started with a storm, and in a way, that storm had never ended. Nina had blown into his life with the wind and rain and set his world spinning. He’d been off balance ever since.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Kaz, this whole 'shoot me' thing is starting to concern me.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Silence does not mean yes. No can be thought and felt but never said. It can be screamed silently on the inside. It can be in the wordless stone of a clenched fist, fingernails digging into palm. Her lips sealed. Her eyes closed. His body just taking, never asking, never taught to question silence”
― Amy Reed, The Nowhere Girls

“Why try to do right if people will always look at me and assume wrong?”
― Nic Stone, Dear Martin

“I knew you could grieve dead people,” I whisper “Guess I didn’t realize you could grieve living people too.”
― Tracy Deonn, Oathbound

“Don't make your life about the loss. Make it about the love.”
― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn

“At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“Someday, when I am nothing but dust and wind, what tale will they tell about me?”
― Marie Lu, The Midnight Star

“If he has to protect you, he won't protect himself.”
― Tracy Deonn, Bloodmarked

“There was an intimacy to all violence, she supposed. The better you knew someone, the more terribly you could hurt them.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“We must discuss, then, the relationship between women and water. When men fall into the sea, they drown. When women meet the water, they transform. It becomes vital to ask: is this a metamorphosis, or a homecoming?”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“Yes, the world is broken. Yes, our leaders are often corrupt and it is difficult to trust them. Yes, we struggle to make ends meet while a few of the world’s richest men hoard enough wealth to house and feed all the starving people of the world. Bullies still seem to run things. The earth is getting sicker and sicker. This world is a hard, hard place to live. Yes to all these things.” She pauses just long enough for everyone to breathe. “But I want you to ask yourselves, is this broken world of ours worth saving?”
― Amy Reed, The Nowhere Girls